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Post by StepfordRenegade on Oct 20, 2014 21:20:00 GMT 10
Hi All
Just finished a great crop of broccoli and cauliflower, recent plantings include tomatoes(grosse lisse, tommy toms and romano), bush beans, snake beans, capsicum, eggplant (globe and finger), radishes, mizuna (salad green) rocket, ocra, beetroot,potatoes and all the usual suspects in the herb garden. Biggest problem here is water (mid north coast NSW), could be a dry summer for us. I know everyman and his dog has tips on growing tomatoes, so here's mine- only have 12 leaves(branches) on each plant, remove from the bottom up. Better fruit.
 good gardening all Do you have any tips on broccoli and cauli? I have probably only had 3 meals worth of broccoli from 3 plants that are meant to grow extra once the main 'head' is removed, and my cauliflower has done nothing. |
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Post by bilycart on Oct 21, 2014 7:26:24 GMT 10
Hi Not sure where you are located but cauliflower and broccoli best suited to cool/temperate climate, tropical not so good. Need to liquid feed regularly, every 10- 14 days. Regular watering also needed. Cauliflowers are fairly slow to develop head and then suddenly seem to take off, if you have good leaf growth then the head should be OK. Broccoli is probably easier to grow and once you have taken the main head you should get the smaller ones coming on. They are great in stir fries. Don't let the main head get overly big before you pick it. Same conditions and feed arrangements as for caulis. Hope this helps. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 12:08:09 GMT 10
Today I added to my garden-
Echinacea
A columnar apple tree
Lemon Balm
New Zealand Spinach- good shady area edible leaf plant
Borage- good shady area edible leaf and flower herb
Also, my first test crop of mushrooms have heaps of cute little baby mushrooms poking out everywhere! Now I've proven I can grow mushrooms in my garden I can go out and spread mushrooms through all the shady areas in the yard (like 90% of it!).
ETA: Oh, and also a Camellia Sinensis- a tea leaf bush. Can't do without my tea.
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Post by agriculturalprep on Oct 22, 2014 21:41:49 GMT 10
Hey Lina, would love to know how your echinacea goes so please keep me posted. I need to get growing on a medicinal garden. Cant go with out the comforts either, looking at planting coffee trees haha
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 21:53:20 GMT 10
Hey Lina, would love to know how your echinacea goes so please keep me posted. I need to get growing on a medicinal garden. Cant go with out the comforts either, looking at planting coffee trees haha My parents are gardeners and run a nursery, and have lots of echinacea growing. I think it's pretty easy to grow, although they make everything seem easy to grow while I tend to kill everything... I planted a coffee tree 3 weeks back, and it's not dying yet, which for me is good, lol. These guys have been at a lot of plant fairs I've gone to and always have a big selection of awesome edibles/fruit trees- www.forbiddenfruitsnursery.com.au/products/pricelist.htm Another easy to grow and good producing rarer food plant is the Yacon, Peruvian Earth Apple. Super tasty and it's recently becoming trendy as a "superfood". Again, my parents have it growing. I need to go pick some up and get it started in my yard. |
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Post by agriculturalprep on Oct 22, 2014 22:00:10 GMT 10
Thats so good what a great resource you have there. Im heaps new to this forum and have only been seriously prepping with most my family on side for six months. But i have a lot of agricultural background and knowledge so try to go from broad acre to horticulture and i still kill things. But if you need any advice or any questions ask I'm happy to help, especially if you need any farm advice. Thanks for the site.
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Post by Peter on Oct 25, 2014 19:33:30 GMT 10
Plant Basil amongst the tomatoes- it is a good natural repellant for bugs that like tomatoes! It's funny when companion plants are also pretty damn delicious together! "If it grows together it goes together" |
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Post by AKM. on Oct 25, 2014 20:31:16 GMT 10
Comfrey all over the place- just to fill in holes and dig for nutrients. Can also eat it if things get really bad. Nasturtiums as well here and there. As to proper edible stuff, Silverbeet, parsley, eggplants which are just about done. A young Mulberry, and a couple of variants of blueberries which will supposedly cross pollinate- but not growing real well as yet. Russian garlic if it comes up, normal garlic. Some potatoes which were just grenaded into a spare bed, they have come up but aren't doing real well. Bok Choi, Broccoli which went straight to seed......a nice passionfruit vine which covers a wall and a door(a good insulator in summer and winter-really makes a difference. Just pruned the hell out of it, it's coming back nicely.
Looking for more perennials and fruit trees to go in this year.
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Post by scoutmum on Oct 31, 2014 11:32:20 GMT 10
Tomatoes (heaps and heaps!), Silverbeet, Amish Deer Tongue Lettuce, Beans, and Peas. And with no help from us, mulberries and mangoes. It makes me so sad when I drive around this region and see food going to waste... Yesterday, we went for a drive and saw THOUSANDS of tomatoes lying in the dirt as they had been deemed imperfect for market. We drove by a house yard with an orange tree: rotting oranges carpeting the lawn. I really don't get it--there are so many ways of eating and preserving this food. We only just finished off the last of our tomatoes and mangoes from last year's yield, just in time for the new crop! P.S. Another thing we have in abundance, with no encouragement from us, is pigweed. Tastes pretty good, and is rich in nitrogen so good for the soil! Early shipwrecked sailors survived on it. Attachments:
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Post by scoutmum on Oct 31, 2014 21:55:59 GMT 10
I forgot one thing we're experimenting with this year... So far so good: peanuts. We've planted them as a bit of a soil booster, but I found this page the other day: aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/carver-peanut/ It's George Washington Carver's original paper on growing peanuts and 105 ways to prepare them for human consumption. The husband had me print it out for future reference. |
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Post by Reyefull on Nov 3, 2014 14:16:21 GMT 10
Made these up last week. Crystal apple cucumbers up the back, hoping they'll grow up the chicken wire & rockmelon up the front.  Same deal here except watermelon up the front.  Two more bits of tank waiting to be turned into gardens.  |
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Post by tacticalmonkey on Nov 4, 2014 19:20:45 GMT 10
Still weeds
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Post by Fractus on Nov 5, 2014 11:42:05 GMT 10
These are my vege patch. Potato, carrot, onion. I grow my herbs nearer the house so the supreme leader does not have to walk far.
when I have fruit on the trees I will send a photo in
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Post by Fractus on Nov 5, 2014 11:45:53 GMT 10
Hope this attachment works Attachments:
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Post by You Must Enter A Name on Nov 5, 2014 22:50:31 GMT 10
Have recently discovered that the previous owners had panted potatoes everywhere, I ripped out a "weed" today and discovered the potato, my neighbor a really nice older lady explained all about how the previous owners had put them in everywhere to break up the soil. I thought I knew better and yet I did not recognise what was growing all around me all this time (Two years now) shame on me as I have done potatoes before and my parents did did it for the exact same reason.
Anyway, the Mrs ripped out my pumpkin, the poor thing was barely two inches tall, she thought it was a weed and ripped it out and threw it across the yard, I can see several faults in her actions, but she meant well.
I am now plus potatoes but minus heirloom pumpkins.
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Post by bilycart on Nov 6, 2014 9:10:39 GMT 10
Had 25ml of rain yesterday, gardens are smiling. Just harvested garlic, potatoes are ready to be dug up (Sebago and Pontiac),tomatoes are fruiting, planted out chili, eggplants, occra, spring onions and cucumbers this morning. Topped up mulch on established veges and fruit trees. Just need some follow up rain and should have a bumper crop. Here's hoping.
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Post by Peter on Nov 6, 2014 10:06:17 GMT 10
"...I can see several faults in her actions, but she meant well..." Man, did this crack me up. "Women who make mistakes live longer than men who mention it" comes to mind. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2014 15:55:44 GMT 10
I've been learning and practicing lots of permaculture techniques lately, including sheet mulching this large area to prepare it for autumn plantings. This is the entirety of my usable sunny land, so I'm trying to get the most out of it possible. There was nothing here but lawn two months ago. I'm so pleased with how it's doing, including the insane number of apples on my 3 foot tall columnar apple tree. Attachments:
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Post by You Must Enter A Name on Nov 24, 2014 6:52:10 GMT 10
The tomato plants are growing steadily now and a little surprise was discovered yesterday. Some more pumpkins are starting to sprout, the Mrs is BANNED from going near the veggie patch though.
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Post by StepfordRenegade on Dec 7, 2014 10:07:06 GMT 10
I spilled a whole lot of chia seeds transferring them into jars today, so all the ones that ended up on the floor are going to go into the garden. Apparently I'm meant to sow late Summer to Autumn, but thought I'd give it a shot now anyway.
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good gardening all
